Various professional organizations and foreign media, including the renowned German Spiegel, believe that buying a used electric vehicle at this moment is an extremely wise and prudent decision.
Modern electric cars have several disadvantages, the first is the significantly higher price of a new vehicle than conventional models, the second is autonomy, and the third is the lack of adequate infrastructure.
The price of a new electric vehicle in Slovenia is strongly encouraged and thus very favorable. The company can claim a 6,000-euro eco-subsidy, an investment allowance of up to 40 percent of the purchase value, and the user of the vehicle is charged as much as 5 times less credit. Considering these benefits, electric vehicles are no more expensive than conventional internal combustion cars. You can read more about it at this link.
Although there has been noticeable progress in all three of the above areas in the recent period, all this is still not sufficient for greater popularization electric cars. What about used electric vehicles?
All cars, both conventional and electric, lose a lot in the first three years. This is also why it is reasonable to look at the market of slightly used vehicles. So you can buy a three-year-old Nissan Leaf for cheap on Germany's mobile.de 15,000 euros.
Of course, there are many other used electric models on offer, such as BMW i3, Renault ZOE and even prestigious Tesla Model S.
Electric cars can last a very long time
This is a significant advantage electric car compared to those using internal combustion engines - durability of the electric motor. The latter has a very small number of moving parts and is therefore very durable. Batteries have advanced tremendously in the last decade, and their degradation or weakening of capacity decreases only slightly with long-term use.
Because of the simple and of a simple drive train electric cars are cheap to maintain. In addition, the brakes on electric cars can last a very long time, since most of these models can be driven with only one pedal. More precisely, by removing the foot from the gas, the car on its own "inhibits” or trying to “capture” kinetic energy, which would otherwise be wasted, thus charging the battery.
The critics of electric vehicles most often stick to the theory of slow degradation of capacity when arguing against it battery. The fact is that over time and with a greater number of charges, especially if this is done incorrectly, they lose their original ability to store energy.
All manufacturers give "long-term" guarantees for their batteries. BMW for example for i3 offers an eight-year battery warranty. If the battery capacity decreases by more than 20 percent during this prescribed period, the vehicle owner will receive a new battery pack.
It is the champion in minimal battery degradation Tesla. Thus, Tesla's S 85P car, which is located in Germany, has traveled a whole million kilometers. And since 2014!
Its owner is a man with an extremely complicated name, which we will leave in its original, German form – Hansjörg-Eberhard Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg. He states that he spent a total on car repairs 13,000 euros, but the engine was replaced twice and the battery once.
The engine was replaced for the first time at samo 40,000 kilometers, and the second time on 320.000 kilometers. The battery of the record Tesla was replaced at 290,000 kilometers, but since then it has been in the car and has already traveled more than 710,000 kilometers! It should be noted that these replacements were under warranty and that Tesla did them completely free of charge.
Even though they are new electric cars are still much more expensive than conventional ones, the used market paints a slightly different picture. We must also consider the efforts of many European metropolises to remove classic vehicles from the very centers. This is also why it is certain that used electric cars will soon gain in popularity. And with that, their prices too.
